As part of Berlin Design Week, the Budapester Salon becomes a meeting place for architects, planners, and designers.
“piccolo mondo” explores the theme of surface — bringing together five Berlin-based positions that show just how differently materiality can be conceived.
Zascho Petkow — master carpenter and designer — creates handcrafted objects and small series that navigate between craft tradition and contemporary design, with a material aesthetic that recalls a pre-industrial sensibility. Atelier Haußmann produces individual furniture and spatial objects in metal and wood in Berlin — with clear, graphic silhouettes as a nod to traditional steelcraft and classic industrial design.
Elisa Strozyk transforms wood into a flexible surface: she deconstructs it into small, thin tiles and attaches them to a textile base, creating a material that looks and smells like wood — yet behaves like a fabric. Heike Buchfelder explores the sensorial and sculptural qualities of materials. With an architectural eye and a preference for the unexpected, she works with feathers, glass, paper, and metal — always searching for what a material can do beyond its familiar form. Polsterhans has been based in Berlin since 2001 — a master upholstery workshop specialising in the restoration of design classics and bespoke interiors. In this exhibition, upholstery takes centre stage as a design practice in its own right: fabric as a surface that carries meaning.
Materiality, structure, atmosphere — “piccolo mondo” shows how surfaces shape spaces and hold significance.
Friday, 28 May: The exhibition is only accessible that evening as part of the accompanying talk. Entry by RSVP only.
Accompanying the exhibition, the evening format “Beyond Context — Insights into the Work of Jasper Architects” with Martin Jasper takes place on 28 May — part of the joint ARCHITECTURE ICONS talk series by Berlin Design Week and Budapester Salon.
Speaker: Martin Jasper, Jasper Architects
Organiser: Budapester Salon in cooperation with Berlin Design Week
